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Re:I Am the Cheapest Bastard in Indie Games by coldtea on Tuesday August 27, 2019 @10:57AM (#20810230)
>I'm constantly in the process of improving my abilities and I'm happy with my progress. I know where I am and where I want to go. But when I see another developer simply say that they have given up on this process in some fundamental way I will view that with disdain because I see it as a failure, which it is.

So, you get a free pass at crude graphics because you're "constantly in the process of improving" and will "get better in the future", but veteran developers, with fans, many titles, and 25-year old careers don't, even though they have perfectly good (not to mention objective and spelt out in 2 posts) reasons for not investing in better graphics, and their whole genre is not about graphics but gameplay/story anyway.

This is Dunning-Kruger meets entitlement meets rudeness.

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Re:I Am the Cheapest Bastard in Indie Games by adnzzzzZ on Tuesday August 27, 2019 @11:45AM (#20810874)
No, I get a free pass because I didn't write an article defending my game's poor quality art and posted it on the Internet. If I wrote such an article and said that I have no intent to improve said art I'd expect people to criticize me for it. But I haven't done that.
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